Yia su (hello) from Greece!

Yesterday, we arrived in Athens safe and sound. But before I elaborate on our going-ons here, I will provide a couple more details about our Rome excursion.

Rome was beautiful and wonderful, but a bit dizzying. We often ventured out to see the sites (including the pantheon, spanish steps, the forum, the trevy fountain and st. peter's basillica) in a rather unstructured way: we just took random turns and eventually 
stumbled upon these historical monuments. Though the tour books warned of long
lines, we were fairly lucky. Our favorite destination was the Pantheon which we ended up returning to a couple times and even ate dinner across from it one night.

In Rome, Christmas is in the air. Lights lined the winding alley ways and santas littered the streets. There were even a couple festivals, complete with carnival games, cotton candy, and booths of christmas chatchkas (spl?). 

Besides site seeing, we spent a lot of time eating carbohydrates. We had pizza 4 times in 5 days. We hope to transition from the cheese, bread and wine heavy Italian diet to a more healthy mediterrean one; although, we were recently informed that Greece consumes the most cheese per capita of any nation. Tonight we hope to find some good healthy food with dinner at a traditional Greek restaurant.

Though we are only starting our Greek section of the trip, we have already mastered the public transportation system, visited the acropolis, and learned that coffee is outrageously expensive in Greece.

Over and out,
Z & M